Steam Deck settings

[quakerymcduckerz]

Does anyone play on the Deck? What settings are you using to have it run smooth but not look like a worse version than the original release?

[DdCno1]

Default settings (everything low - but not lowest - with XeSS upscaling) look significantly better than the original with the best graphics mods and run at around 30 fps with some dips in the open world. It feels fluent with the Deck's controls - I would just disable the fps counter and not worry about the numbers.

Oblivion Remastered is a demanding game, but it scales well. I was very positively surprised by how well it runs on the Deck. It is obviously not the same as running the game on a high-end PC, but nobody is expecting that from the little Deck. The overall look is preserved and there is still a ton of detail everywhere.

Very important: It needs to be installed to the SSD (which means the cheapest Deck is out). This game is not suitable for running from an SD card, for obvious reasons.

[Captain Custard]

It will run but you wont have fun playing, Oblivion gates in particular are borderline unplayable and I dread to think what the battle of Bruma would be like.

Optimization patches in the future may help but at the moment this is a game for a proper PC/Laptop

[quakerymcduckerz]

Originally posted by DdCno1:

Default settings (everything low - but not lowest - with XeSS upscaling) look significantly better than the original with the best graphics mods and run at around 30 fps with some dips in the open world. It feels fluent with the Deck's controls - I would just disable the fps counter and not worry about the numbers.

Oblivion Remastered is a demanding game, but it scales well. I was very positively surprised by how well it runs on the Deck. It is obviously not the same as running the game on a high-end PC, but nobody is expecting that from the little Deck. The overall look is preserved and there is still a ton of detail everywhere.

Very important: It needs to be installed to the SSD (which means the cheapest Deck is out). This game is not suitable for running from an SD card, for obvious reasons.

I have everything low and still get drops down to teens on fps. Sometimes lower. It just stalls sometimes. I don't care about frame rate until it feels bad; I usually lock most games at 30 for the Deck anyway. I have it on the internal ssd card (I do have the cheapest Deck but with a swapped 1tb.)

If I go lowest possible on every setting, I might as well just play the original. Really hoping for some kind of optimization patch.

It's kind of crazy that this is "Verified" in my opinion. I've played games that run/look better and are "unsupported."

Not hating on it, but I'm a little bummed. I expected more from a "Verfied."

[quakerymcduckerz]

Originally posted by Captain Custard:

It will run but you wont have fun playing, Oblivion gates in particular are borderline unplayable and I dread to think what the battle of Bruma would be like.

Optimization patches in the future may help but at the moment this is a game for a proper PC/Laptop

This is closer to my experience even with low settings. It also bugs out a lot. On the escorting Martin and Jauffre mission everyone got off horse to attack a wolf and refused to get back on their horse to continue. Like I figured some of these bugs would be fixed in a remaster. What was I thinking?